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It’s Week 1 and hands are already hovering over the panic button in Carolina.
Quarterback Bryce Young, the Panthers’ No. 1 overall pick in 2023, finished Sunday’s humiliating 47-10 road loss to the Saints with a passer rating of 32.8, with The Charlotte Observer’s Scott Fowler pondering the future of the Heisman Trophy winner, who “looked exactly the same in the beginning of his second season as he did at the end of his first. Overwhelmed. Undersized. Out of his element.”
“The Panthers will give it every chance, of course, because they’ve invested the No. 1 selection of the 2023 NFL Draft and so much else in Young. They have earmarked him as the guy from the very first game of his NFL career, making him the starter and a team captain and entrusting much of their future to him. And he’s only 23. There’s that. And he looked good in training camp and in his one drive of the preseason. There’s that, too,” Fowler wrote in his column.
“But wishing Young was the guy and him actually turning into the guy are two very different things.”
In his first game in rookie head coach Dave Canales‘ system, Young went 13-for-30, throwing for 161 yards and two interceptions while rushing for a score.
Veteran backup Andy Dalton relieved Young in the final two minutes of the contest.
“Of course, you want to come out and start off on a high note. That didn’t happen today, and you know, that’s tough,” said Young, whose Panthers went 2-15 last year.
“We’re going to wear that today. We’re going to learn from it. We turn the film on tomorrow but that doesn’t define us. It’s obviously a long year. And we have to attack it with urgency and make sure that we’re urgent about cleaning things up and fix what we’ve got to fix.”
That urgency was uneven on Young’s part.
“Young hesitated when guys were open Sunday or threw it to them when they weren’t. He got aggressive when he should have been careful and got careful when he should have been aggressive,” Fowler wrote.
Canales, who helped transform Baker Mayfield into the Buccaneers’ $100 million man as Tampa Bay’s offensive coordinator last season, stressed the Panthers’ “long journey” and not the immediate destination.
“I knew that whether we started 4-0 or 0-4, whatever that is. What I knew is this is going to take a long time to become us. You’ve known me a little bit now, but I just can’t help but know that you have to have adversity to become who you’re going to be. For guys to pull together, to show their character the way they did today in a really tough loss and call it what it is,” Canales said Sunday.
The next stop on that “long journey” for the Panthers is Sunday’s home opener against Jim Harbaugh’s Chargers.
